All the sounds of the house, from the creak of the back stair under an early-rising maid’s foot, to the drumming rain on the roofslates, were sounds he had heard a thousand times before; heard so ofte...
All of them, I said firmly, all four of them; they wanted what was best for you. Best for me, he repeated bleakly. Right. His knuckles had gone white again, and he gave me a look through narrowed eyes...
All mankind is of one author, he said slowly, and is one volume. When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so transl...
All loss is one, and one loss becomes all, a single death the key to the gate that bars memory.
All I want, she said softly to the dark, is for you to love me. Not because of what I can do or what I look like, or because I love you—just because I am.
Alive, and one. We are one, and while we love, death will never touch us. The grave’s a fine and private place/But none, I think, do there embrace.
Ahora sé por qué los judíos y los musulmanes tienen novecientos nombres para denominar a Dios; al amor no le basta con una palabra.
A mark on one arm like the one I bore. Here, in this time, the mark of sorcery, the mark of a magus. The small, homely scar of a smallpox vaccination.
A man killed with a musket was just as dead as one killed with a mortar. It was just that the mortar killed impersonally, destroying dozens of men, while the musket was fired by one man who could see...
A conclusion is simply the point at which you give up thinking. He gave up, and as he rose stiffly to his feet, found that a conclusion had indeed formed itself in his mind, much as a pearl forms insi...
A Highlander in full regalia is an impressive sight—any Highlander, no matter how old, ill-favored, or crabbed in appearance. A tall, straight-bodied, and by no means ill-favored young Highlander at c...
Women giving birth seemed very often to lose any sense of fear or misgiving...exhibiting an absorption that amounted to indifference-simply because they had no attention to spare for anything beyond t...
Two Protestants, amazingly bound to Catholics and bemused at the strange tides of fate that had washed over them; two men left alone by the misfortunes of life, and now surprised to find themselves th...
The frantic, reflexive Dear Lord, let it be all right of everyone facing crisis. Over time, either the crisis or the petitioner wears down, and prayer either ceases or … the person praying starts to l...
The Dowager Countess Melton was not a fool. She knew quite well that he was in disgrace; promising young officers in the good graces of their superiors were not sent to the arse-end of Scotland to ove...
Massive edifice, with its impenetrable walls, its monumental gate, and its red-coated guards, I began to have doubts. What
It was an act of trust to sleep in the presence of another person. If the trust was mutual, simple sleep could bring you closer together than the joining of bodies.
Insignia
Hummingbird.
He told me that a man must be responsible for any seed he sows, for it’s his duty to take care of a woman and protect her. And if I wasna prepared to do that, then I’d no right to burden a woman with...